state of the rsync nation? (revisited 6/2003 from 11/2000)

[Brad Hards]

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On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:43 pm, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> The comments about rsync never using libhsync/librsync are still true
> for the foreseeable future. There are many things rsync includes that
> are still missing from librsync, and the rsync implementation is very
> tightly coupled, with many backwards compatibility issues. Even when
> librsync reaches the point of being as good or better than rsync at
> signature/delta/patch calculation, it would be a major task to "fit it
> into" rsync.
The downside to not having a library that is wire-compatible with rsync 
- --daemon is that it is damn difficult to write something that works as a VFS 
/ kioslave type device. I had a hack at this, by wrapping the rsync 
executable, and it worked a bit, but it was way too fragile for any real use:
http://www.cuneata.net/rsync-kio.html

Brad
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